NOTE TO N. P. GORBUNOV AND REMARKS ON A. M. NIKOLAYEV’S LETTER

Written:Written on April 18, 1921Published:First published in 1932 inLenin Miscellany XX.

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      Progress Publishers,1976,

      Moscow,Volume 45,

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ComradeGorbunov:

Helpto improve this, and when it is brought up to X,
let me know.

...Anew photoelement has been invented which, coupled with
an amplifier valve, makes it possible at some distance (20–30 metres)
to record the emanation of radio (oscillation) energy. With the action
of this photoelement, an amplifying device directed at a (black or
white) object will throw its reflection on a screen with the aid of ax |||receiving radio station. With an improved instrument, the following
results could be achieved:
1) with a radio telephone, a moving image
of a speaking person could be seen on the screen;
2) an enemy
squadron, moving hundreds of versts away, could be reflected on the
screen.

...Theinvention has been made by aRussianengineer, Mikhail
Alexandrovich Bonch-Bruyevich.

Withcomradely greetings,A. Nikolayev